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A raccoon has remarkably survived an entire month at sea by eating nothing but cardboard.<\/p>\n

The creature, who has been named Meeko, managed to find his way into a container in Davenport, Iowa, US and was subsequently sent by rail to Halifax in Canada, before being put on a boat to Liverpool, explained the Metro.<\/p>\n

Once the cargo arrived in Merseyside, it was driven to Ebbw Vale in south Wales, where staff discovered the raccoon amongst their machine parts order.<\/p>\n

Jan Garen, who has housed Meeko at Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary, said: "She is getting used to us but she has had a rough ride. She was locked in that container for four weeks and somehow survived by drinking condensation and eating cardboard."<\/p>\n

Ms Garen went on to explain it was obvious Meeko was not a pet and had been living in the wild until finding her way on to the ship and sailing across the North Atlantic.\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801643336-ADNFCR\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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